Velocity Fund Info Session (In-Person @ PFP)
About this Event
Learn more about the Velocity Fund's grant application — open from September 22–November 22, 2026! We'll cover eligibility, all parts of the application, selection criteria — and any of your questions.
This In-Person Info Session is co-hosted by Philadelphia Folklore Project, and will be given in English. ASL Info Session recording is available upon request! Please email [email protected] with any accessibility requests or questions.
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About our Site Partner: Founded in 1987, the Philadelphia Folklore Project documents, supports, and presents Philadelphia-area folk arts and culture, including the arts of people who have been here for generations and those who have just arrived. In collaboration with local artists and community groups, we seek to preserve and strengthen our city’s folk cultural life because we recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion are central elements of thriving communities.
Annually, we offer exhibitions, concerts, workshops, and professional assistance to artists and communities. We conduct ongoing field research of community-based local arts, history, and culture, and we preserve a record of Philadelphia’s folklife in our 80,000+ item Folklore Archives, which houses documents of Philadelphia’s folk communities and cultural resources for over three decades. Our arts education programs give young people opportunities to study with amazing and diverse artists. Our publications, videos, traveling exhibitions, and other resources offer diverse perspectives and understandings of Philadelphia. Through our work, we aim to deepen public understanding of local traditional arts and the peoples and communities that create them.
Accessibility Info: From the sidewalk, there is a long wooden walkway with 6 total steps up leading into the building. Once inside, a single-stall bathroom is available on the first floor.
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The Velocity Fund offers Philadelphia-based artists and collectives $5000 to develop and present new projects — particularly those that are experimental in genre, collaborative in practice, grounded in their communities, and thoughtful in their impact. Independent artists, collaborative groups, and non-incorporated collectives are welcome to apply.
The Velocity Fund intends to directly support artists and arts-based cultural organizers who conduct their practice outside the studio, and who present them outside traditional art spaces. Velocity has funded multidisciplinary and varied work that use visual arts — including (but never limited to) printmaking, performance, video, puppetry, sculpture, and curation — to expand, archive, learn with, and lift up their publics.
The Velocity Fund is a Regional Regranting Program supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and hosted by Asian Arts Initiative.
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